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# אוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H224

**flame** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

flame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/224/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוּר: n.m. flame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/224/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. flame. לְכוּ בְאוּר אֶשְׁכֶם walk in the flame of your fire Is 50:11, & so fire itself, whose light & flame were seen 44:16; 47:14—exile Is. + 31:9 & Ez 5:2 (Co אשׁ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Urim (6); the Urim (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 8:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.8.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.8.8/#tree)

וַיָּ֥שֶׂם עָלָ֖יו אֶת־הַחֹ֑שֶׁן וַיִּתֵּן֙ אֶל־הַחֹ֔שֶׁן אֶת־הָאוּרִ֖ים וְאֶת־הַתֻּמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.placed on him (et) the breastpiece and he.put into the breastpiece (et) the Urim and (et) the Thummim

*JPS 1917:* And he placed the breastplate upon him; and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.

[Ezra 2:63](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.63/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.63/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַתִּרְשָׁ֙תָא֙ לָהֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יֹאכְל֖וּ מִקֹּ֣דֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁ֑ים עַ֛ד עֲמֹ֥ד כֹּהֵ֖ן לְאוּרִ֥ים וּלְתֻמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the governor to them (cmp) not they.will.eat any of.the.holy.thing of the.holy.things until will.arise a.priest to Urim and to Thummim

*JPS 1917:* And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/224.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/224/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).